....I would suspect however that they merely want to remove the Assistive Technologies installer because its Build 14393 (Version 1607) and it reaches End of Life soon.

My suspicion is that your mechanisms 1, 2 & 3 had to be allowed to continue in secret because it was impossible to turn them off while they were still needed to support the Assistive Technologies route. As you say, we won't know for sure until we try. That's why I've set aside some real hardware (not just a VM) to test it in the new year. About a month in seems an appropriate time to try.

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There might be a loop hole here -- I've still got a bootable USB install stick which I made via Rufus from a version of Windows 10 around middle of 2017. I added the ei.cfg text file to get a prompt over which version of Windows to install -- I use W10 Pro. So it's also possible when you make the creation tool from the ms site newer versions might have a different activation mechanism built in. !!

Tested with an old TechNet key for W8.1 pro on a VM on a piece of hardware I've never had Windows on --tested with a spare HP ProLiant Micro server Gen 8 that I'm possibly going to upgrade to the Gen 10 model (both those are micro cube format servers --very good as desktops too !!!! and minimal space required).

Activated fine (Jan 1 2018). So at least for TODAY it's still working. Note I was running the W10 system as a VM on a host running on a Linux Centos box with VMware work station rel 14.1

You can upgrade that older version of W10 to latest version via normal Windows update.

Now off for some decent "Liquid Lobotomy" today !!!!

Cheers
jimbo

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That's keen, but a bit early in the day (Redmond time, that is) to be testing. 12:00 EST seems the 'traditional' time for MS to change things (like releasing updates). I'm resisting the temptation to test just yet, if I can hold out that long I'm aiming for 30 days. :)

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That's keen, but a bit early in the day (Redmond time, that is) to be testing. 12:00 EST seems the 'traditional' time for MS to change things (like releasing updates). I'm resisting the temptation to test just yet, if I can hold out that long I'm aiming for 30 days. :)

Bar has a load of English football supporters visiting from UK for New Year with a load of "Boll--ks to Brexit" t-shirts on -- can't even avoid that stuff here !!!! Iceland isn't even a member of the EU !!! (although an EEA country).

great atmosphere and Premier League is always popular -- No Sat PM 15.00 or other days block - all games are available on a multitude of channels

Cheers
jimbo

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